How to format your references using the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Kacprzak G G 2011 Astronomy. The pristine universe Science 334 1216–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shields G A and Kasting J F 2007 Palaeoclimatology: evidence for hot early oceans? Nature 447 E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chouard T, Weiss U and Dhand R 2002 Good “omics” for the poor? Nature 419 489

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Park B S, Song D H, Kim H M, Choi B-S, Lee H and Lee J-O 2009 The structural basis of lipopolysaccharide recognition by the TLR4-MD-2 complex Nature 458 1191–5

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Gee S 2014 Fraud and Fraud Detection (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Gruijter J J de 2006 Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring ed M F P Bierkens, D J Brus and M Knotters (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Calabretto S 2011 Ontology Alignment in the Urban Domain Ontologies in Urban Development Projects Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing ed C Métral, J Teller and C Tweed (London: Springer) pp 55–68

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2016 Is Technology Making Us Dumber Or Smarter? Yes IFLScience

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1997 DFAS Telecommunications: DFAS Has the Opportunity To Reduce Its Telecommunication Line Capacity (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shimpeno P D 2010 Consumed: Simple Choices, Complex Problems Doctoral dissertation (Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Pilon M 2012 Richards-Ross Breaks American Drought In the Women’s 400 New York Times D1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Abbreviation	J. Phys. G Nucl. Part. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0954-3899
ISSN (online)	1361-6471
Scope	Nuclear and High Energy Physics